🚨 As asylum backlogs remain high, our client, a 52-year-old man from Cote D’Ivoire seeking protection in the UK, will receive an apology & compensation from the Home Office for waiting 4 years and 2 months for a decision on his asylum claim. Here's why this is important🧵1/6

Home Office guidance issued to caseworkers making decisions on asylum claims from Albania and India, states that women at risk of domestic violence do not form a ‘particular social group’, one of the five ‘Convention reasons’ for being a refugee. It’s called ‘turning a blind eye’

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